Literary Journal
New Letters
Always open#208 Overall · 40.7 ptsTier 4
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About the magazine
The mission of New Letters magazine is to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found. It publishes and serves readers and writers worldwide. In recent years, New Letters has won a National Magazine Award, the industry’s highest honor, plus multiple Pushcart Prizes, and is reprinted often in the Best American anthology series.
Editorial focus
PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction
Submitting your work
Reading periodJan 1 to Dec 31
Reading feeYes
PaymentCash
Response timeGreater than 6 months
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsYes
Send no more than six poems, one piece of nonfiction, or one short story per submission. We do not read e-mail submissions.
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1 listedPrize history
Past winners and selected work.
2024Mary Gordon
2024John Barth
2024Marilyn Hacker
Past issues
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Past Issue
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